“We will drill offshore, and we will drill now,” the Republican presidential candidate told a rally in Miami’s Little Havana. “If we’re going to drill off the state of Florida, you deserve more of those revenues. They shouldn’t be sent to Washington, they should be sent to Tallahassee.”

Inspired by Palin’s “share the wealth” policy with oil revenues in Alaska?

And McCain has crafted a populist argument to deflect conservative criticism of his vote a $700 billion bailout of financial institutions. “I’m going to make sure we take care of the working people who were devastated by the excess and corruption of Wall Street and Washington,” he said.